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AFTER this they were dispersed abroad, on account of their languages,
and went out by colonies every where; and each colony took possession of
that land which they light upon, and unto which God led them; so that the
whole continent was filled with them, both the inland and the maritime
countries. There were some also who passed over the sea in ships, and inhabited
the islands: and some of those nations do still retain the denominations
which were given them by their first founders; but some have lost them
also, and some have only admitted certain changes in them, that they might
be the more intelligible to the inhabitants. And they were the Greeks who
became the authors of such mutations. For when in after-ages they grew
potent, they claimed to themselves the glory of antiquity; giving names
to the nations that sounded well (in Greek) that they might be better understood
among themselves; and setting agreeable forms of government over them,
as if they were a people derived from themselves.

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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